"kind, and invigorating. Her beauty resonated with the grace that comes of insight and deep abiding affection.”” According to Amy Leal, Jane Campion’s film about Keats’s and Brawne’s relationship “reflects the critical transformations in Brawne scholarship in recent years,” painting her as “the steadfast “Bright Star” of Keats's sonnet, and it is Keats who is fickle, torn between his vocation and Fanny... she is La Belle Dame without the nightmare thralldom, witty and chic but also deeply kind and maternal, an aspect of her character that is often missed in readings of her.” John Evangelist Walsh presents a more moderate"
"Frances Greville Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England. She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem ""The Beauties"" (1746) mentions her as """"Fanny"""" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville"
"was one of the first in England to be notified of Keats' death. Letters and drafts of poems suggest that Keats first met Frances (Fanny) Brawne between September and November 1818. It is likely that the 18-year-old Brawne visited the Dilke family at Wentworth Place before she lived there. She was born in the hamlet of West End (now in the district of West Hampstead), on 9 August 1800. Like Keats' grandfather, her grandfather kept a London inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis. She shared her first name with both Keats' sister and mother, and had a"
"talent for dress-making and languages as well as a natural theatrical bent. During November 1818 she developed an intimacy with Keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of Tom Keats, whom John was nursing through this period. On 3 April 1819, Brawne and her widowed mother moved into the other half of Dilke's Wentworth Place, and Keats and Brawne were able to see each other every day. Keats began to lend Brawne books, such as Dante's ""Inferno"", and they would read together. He gave her the love sonnet ""Bright Star"" (perhaps revised for her) as a declaration. It was"
"Anne Penny Anne Penny (née Hughes; 6 January 1729 – 17 March 1784) was a British poet, born in Wales to a vicar and his wife. She married a privateer who owned an estate in Oxford but was left widowed at the age of 22 with a son, Hugh Cloberry Christian, so began writing poetry. She married a French customs officer, again with a maritime history and the couple moved to London. There she published a number of works, including her most significant poem ""An Invocation to the Genius of Britain"", a patriotic piece written at the start of the"
"aged 25. Severn believed that it was Keats's last ever poem and that it had been composed especially for him. The poem came to be forever associated with the ""Bright Star"" Fanny Brawne – with whom Keats became infatuated. Gittings says it was given as ""a declaration of his love."" It was officially published in 1838 in ""The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal"", 17 years after Keats's death. Bright Star <br>Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— <br>Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night <br>And watching, with eternal lids apart, <br>Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, <br>The moving"
"with little money. In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, ""in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground."" He was never to see his father again. While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne. These journal-letters now represent the only surviving account of the poet's"
"become a key subject to which Fane often returned to in her poetry. These poems form a sequence which are referred to as the ‘Clara Poems’. When Charlie Lamb died under suspicious circumstances in 1856, Lady Sophia Adelaide Theodosia Pelham, the wife of Archibald William Montgomerie, 14th Earl of Eglinton, took the young Fane under her care and introduced her to London society, where she rapidly became well known as a great conversationalist and a woman of considerable wit. She fell in love with Clare Vyner, a handsome Yorkshire squire, in the early 1860s, but their attachment did not lead"
"love poetry, with its complex use of literary conceits, as anticipating that of the metaphysical poets in the next century. More recently, the critic Patricia Thomson describes Wyatt as ""the Father of English Poetry"". Many legends and conjectures have grown up around the notion that the young, unhappily married Wyatt fell in love with the young Anne Boleyn in the early-to-mid-1520s. Their acquaintance is certain, but whether or not the two shared a romantic relationship remains unknown. The nineteenth-century critic George Gilfillan implies that Wyatt and Boleyn were romantically connected. In his verse Wyatt calls his mistress Anna and allegedly"
"her unconsummated love affair with Robert Burns, while also highlighting the poet's relationship with Jenny Clow. Jenny Clow Janet, Jennie or Jenny Clow was a domestic servant to Mrs Agnes Maclehose, née Craig (1759-1841), the Clarinda to Robert Burns' Sylvander. She was the daughter of Andrew (or Alexander) Clow and Margaret Inglis from Fife and was the youngest of eight children. Her mistress sent her to deliver a letter to the poet and he seduced her. Following an affair whilst with the poet while he was in Edinburgh, the twenty-year-old Jenny Clow gave birth in November 1788 to Robert Burns's"
"John Donne John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday"
"to marriage. In 1864, when Fane was twenty-one years old, she married Henry Sydenham Singleton, Esq. (1819-1893), then forty-five, and thus became Mrs Singleton despite her mother's objections. However, Vyner remained in her heart. This unrequited love inspired many of the poems Fane wrote in the 1860s, which were to be published in her first poetry collection, ""From Dawn to Noon"" in 1872. As an Anglo-Irish absentee landowner, Singleton was a part of the landed gentry. He is listed in the 1883 edition of John Bateman's ""Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland"" as having 8,879 acres of land in"
"Lord Byron's ‘Cain.’ An undated ‘Letter to the Judges of the King's Bench,’ in pamphlet form, was also published by Battine. It urges that gentlemen of the privy chamber are exempt by privilege from arrest in civil suits, an indignity to which Battine had himself apparently been subjected. William Battine William Battine (25 January 1765 – 5 September 1836), was the English holder of many legal offices, and poet. Battine was born at East Morden, Sussex on 25 January 1765. Through his mother's family, he was stated to be one of the coheirs of the long dormant barony of Bray,"
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ""Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"" is the first line of a love sonnet by John Keats. It is unclear when Keats first drafted ""Bright Star""; his biographers suggest different dates. Andrew Motion suggests it was begun in October 1819. Robert Gittings states that Keats began the poem in April 1818 – before he met his beloved Fanny Brawne – and he later revised it for her. Colvin believed it to have been in the last week of February 1819, immediately after their informal engagement. The final version"
"novel, ""Lady Singleton"", published in 1842. In Heidelberg he formed a deep attachment to the poet Caroline Champion de Crespigny (1797–1861), Their relationship was essentially intellectual, as neither could afford a divorce settlement from their estranged spouses. The English colony in Heidelberg was intimate. Medwin's acquaintances there included Mary and William Howitt, who found him a man of ""culture and refinement, aristocratic in his tastes"". In the early 1840s Fanny Brawn(e) Lindon, once John Keats's lover, moved to Heidelberg, and through her Medwin was involved once again in a controversy concerning a dead, but influential English romantic poet. Medwin and"
"revered hermit grew. The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well. Remote from man with God he passed his days Prayer all his business, all his pleasure, praise. </poem> Thomas Parnell Thomas Parnell (11 September 1679 – 24 October 1718) was an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He was the son of Thomas Parnell of Maryborough, Queen's County (now Port Laoise, County Laoise), a prosperous landowner who had been a loyal supporter of Cromwell during the English Civil War and"
"Fanny gladdens my heart:—You know not how I love her."" Wollstonecraft's first novel """", in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood. Perhaps the most famous of these romantic friendships was between Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, nicknamed the Ladies of Llangollen. Butler and Ponsonby eloped in 1778, to the relief of Ponsonby's family (concerned about their reputation had she run away with a man) to live together in Wales for 51 years and be thought of as eccentrics. Their story was considered ""the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship"" and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Diarist"
"Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M. Clay, and was sometimes identified by the name of her most famous novel, Dora Thorne) (1 November 1836 – 25 November 1884) was an English novelist. She was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, to Benjamin and Charlotte Agnes Law, devout Roman Catholics. After attending convent schools in Bristol and Preston and a finishing school in Paris, she worked as a governess before marrying Phillip Edward Brame (1839–1886), a London-based jeweller, on 7 January 1863."
"friendship and Carlyle also helped Jewsbury get on to the English literary scene. Carlyle married Jane Welsh in 1826. He met Welsh through his friend and her tutor Edward Irving, with whom she came to have a mutual romantic (although not intimate) attraction. Welsh was the subject of Leigh Hunt's charming poem, ""Jenny kiss'd Me"". Their marriage proved to be one of the most famous, well documented, and unhappy of literary unions. Over 9000 letters between Carlyle and his wife have been published showing the couple had an affection for each other marred by frequent and angry quarrels. Carlyle became"
"remained unconsummated; jealousy for his 'star' began to gnaw at him. Darkness, disease and depression surrounded him, reflected in poems such as ""The Eve of St. Agnes"" and ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" where love and death both stalk. ""I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks;"" he wrote to her, ""...your loveliness, and the hour of my death"". In one of his many hundreds of notes and letters, Keats wrote to Brawne on 13 October 1819: ""My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you"
"Richard Brathwait Richard Brathwait or Brathwaite (1588 – 4 May 1673) was an English poet. He was born at Burnishead, near Kendal. He entered Oriel College, Oxford in 1604, and remained there for some years, pursuing the study of poetry and Roman history. He moved to Cambridge to study law and afterwards to London to the Inns of Court. His father, Thomas, died in 1610, and the son went down to live on the estate he inherited. He was married at Hurworth, 4 May 1617, to Frances, daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham Abbey. On the death of his elder"
"Browning was born in London. On October 4, in London, Percy Shelley first met William Godwin (3 March 1756 - 7 April 1836), an English writer, husband of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (who would eventually marry Shelley and become Mary Shelley). In 1813, Jane Austen published (anonymously) ""Pride and Prejudice"". Byron published ""The Giaour"" and ""The Bride of Abydos"". January 23 Drury Lane reopened with Coleridge's ""Remorse"". In May Percy Shelley published his poem ""Queen Mab"". In September Sir Walter Scott declined the offer of being made Poet Laureate, Robert Southey accepted the post."
"1792. Fanny's husband was Adam Armour, a builder, brother of Jean Armour, thereby Fanny became Jean's sister-in-law as well as her niece. Adam Armour was immortalised in the poem """"Adam Armour's Prayer"""" and the couple had five sons and four daughters. Adam was an adherent of the 'Auld Licht' persuasion and as such was in direct opposition to Robert Burns whose poem relates an incident regarding an Agnes Wilson, a maid at Poosy Nancy's, who was thought to be a prostitute. Adam Armour and a group of associates placed her on a pole and rode her out of town, injuring"
"Evan Evans's book. Although Penny's work was criticised for poor grammar and linking this to her social standing, it was subscribed to by Samuel Johnson, the Duchess of Bedford, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Horace Walpole. She was also commissioned to write poems by the Marine Society. Anne Penny Anne Penny (née Hughes; 6 January 1729 – 17 March 1784) was a British poet, born in Wales to a vicar and his wife. She married a privateer who owned an estate in Oxford but was left widowed at the age of 22 with a son, Hugh Cloberry Christian,"
"1920s, small but well-respected literary magazines published some of Crane's lyrics, gaining him, among the avant-garde, a respect that ""White Buildings"" (1926), his first volume, ratified and strengthened. ""White Buildings"" contains many of Crane's best lyrics, including ""For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"", and ""Voyages"", a powerful sequence of erotic poems. They were written while he was falling in love with Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant mariner. ""Faustus and Helen"" was part of a larger artistic struggle to meet modernity with something more than despair. Crane identified T. S. Eliot with that kind of despair, and while he acknowledged"
"and the Tavy"" (1836). When she published her work on Switzerland she embodied with it many passages in the diary which her husband kept whilst on the tour. Edward Atkyns Bray Edward Atkyns Bray (1778–1857) was a British poet, vicar, and miscellaneous writer. Bray was the only son of Edward Bray, solicitor, and manager of the Devonshire estates of the Duke of Bedford, was born at the Abbey House, Tavistock, 18 Dec 1778. His mother, Mary, a daughter of Dr. Brandreth of Houghton Regis, and the widow of Arthur Turner, would not allow her son to be sent to a"
"acres (8 km²) in Ulster as reward for his services. His nephew William Drummond of Hawthornden bequeathed a manuscript collection of seventy-two sonnets, entitled ""The Tarantula of Love"", and a translation (1587) from the Italian of the ""Triumphs of Petrarke"" to the library of the University of Edinburgh. Two other volumes of his manuscript notes, scrolls of poems, etc. are preserved among the Drummond manuscripts, currently in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Fowler's poetry was featured in the 1803 publication by John Leyden of ""Scottish Descriptive Poems"". William Fowler (makar) William Fowler (c. 1560–1612) was a"
"from New England"" in the September 1846 issue of ""Godey's Lady's Book"", saying that its author exhibits ""deep feeling and exquisite taste"" and her work deserved wider circulation. Frances Sargent Osgood Frances Sargent Osgood (""née"" Locke) (June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. Nicknamed ""Fanny"", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father's first wife, Martha"
"signifies ""Denys's son"", although no connection between the two families is recorded. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, ""Timbuktu"". He published his first solo collection of poems, ""Poems Chiefly Lyrical"" in 1830. ""Claribel"" and ""Mariana"", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included"
"was buried along with the ashes of Edward Williams next to Thomas Jefferson Hogg in Kensal Green Cemetery. Jane Williams Jane Williams (""née"" Jane Cleveland; 21 January 1798 – 8 November 1884) was a British woman best known for her association with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Jane was raised in England and India, before marrying a naval officer and settling in London. She soon left him for another military officer, Edward Ellerker Williams. After Edward and she left England for Italy, they became acquainted with Percy and Mary Shelley. Though she never had a romantic relationship with Shelley,"
"The Broken Tower The last new poem meant to be published in Hart Crane's life, ""The Broken Tower"" (1932) has been widely acknowledged as one of the best lyrics of Crane's last years, if not his career. In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely—as death ode, life ode, process poem, visionary poem, poem on failed vision—but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is generally undisputed. Written early in the year, the poem was rejected by ""Poetry"", and only appeared in"
"born in Liverpool, United Kingdom. She was married to the mathematician Peter Fantham and had two children, Julia and Roy. Elaine Fantham Elaine Fantham (née Crosthwaite, 25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and in the social history of Roman women. Much of her work was concerned with the intersection of literature and Greek and Roman history. She spoke fluent Italian, German and French and presented lectures and conference papers around the world—including in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Argentina, and Australia. Her"
"Ages. ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"" is a late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance. It is one of the better-known Arthurian stories, of an established type known as the ""beheading game"". Developing from Welsh, Irish and English tradition ""Sir Gawain"" highlights the importance of honour and chivalry. ""Preserved in the same manuscript with Sir Gawayne were three other poems, now generally accepted as the work of its author, including the intricate elegiac poem, ""Pearl""."" Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was"